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drwhitt

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Not a real doctor.

33 miles to Boston.

Ski bum (aspirational).

An original.

Semi-charmed kind of life, baby, baby.

Banner: Landscape view of a forest pond, foreground deciduous and conifer boughs, a fallen tree in the water, a majestic row of evergreens along the far shore, and a deep blue and clear sky, all reflecting upon it.

Avatar: Selfie portrait of a man grinning in a forest.

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drwhitt, to animals
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It feels like my life has been turned upside down by the recent addition of a black pug puppy.

Comparatively, raising three human children over the last three-plus decades was a cake walk.

film_girl, to random
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Watching Linux distros (and yes, it is usually Debian packagers who act the most sanctimonious) shoot themselves in the face and then insult upstream AND the users of a popular package under the delusion that only the distro's self-declared experts are capable of making decisions is always a good reminder as to why you will never be able to waterboard me into using Linux as my primary desktop. Very sorry this is happening Team KeePassXC. https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720

drwhitt,
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@film_girl Fascinating read… seriously.

I’ve been around the block a few times with security folks and, let me tell you, this kind of dismissive discourse is far more common than you think.

Moreover, it has nothing really to do with open-source, per se. It’s just that we get to see (read) the back-and-forth that is otherwise obscured behind the walls of most corporations.

davew, to random
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I'm tired of people using the term "podcast" when I can't find it at the place where I get my podcasts.

drwhitt, (edited )
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@davew So, Dave, I was right there with you and when I saw this I said to myself, “Look! There’s a Spotify logo!”

But I was wrong because this podcast really has downloadable feed URL (.rss) usable in any podcast player.

It’s interesting because many people are podcasting while,
it seems, many corporations are simpl, to put it bluntly, skimming.

https://overcast.fm/+0jzaHmpaQ

gedeonm, to random
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Head Over Heels - The Literal Version

Check out my cool,
new sweater!
I just bought it,
It’s from The Gap
It was just forty dollars!

https://youtu.be/w0TYun-Nq1Q

drwhitt,
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@gedeonm The chimpanzee in the Red Sox shirt gets me every time.
🐵

_Davidsmith, to random
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A tricky part of being a solo developer is that there is nobody to review my code. So a trick I've developed is to do a review myself but in a different tool from my daily Git setup. The context switch helps me to pretend I’m analyzing someone else’s work.

Previously I'd export diffs into Kaleidoscope, but I recently discovered Juxtacode, which works better for me. It’s a Git-native Diff tool. I can easily pick any 2 commits to compare and navigate changes. Recommended.

https://juxtacode.app

drwhitt,
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@_Davidsmith Ha!

Today when I clicked on the link, there’s a portion of your quote from this toot 👆🏻 on their homepage, appearing just below the fold on a mobile browser.

davew, to random
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I don’t like all the ads for betting on sports tv. I find it offensive and it scares me, especially knowing that a lot of kids are watching this stuff

drwhitt, (edited )
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@davew 💯

It’s gross and way beyond TV and radio broadcasts.

Here’s the Apple Sports app’s Summary page for today’s Marathon Monday Sox game.

Do I really want or need the betting odds displayed above the fold? It is, almost literally, the last bit of information I need about this or any sports event. Who is making these design decisions?

Also, relevant to your specific comment, it is listed as appropriate for ages “4+ Years Old” on the app store. Really?

Edit: Clearly, I’m incensed by this.

matthewcassinelli, to random
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Can’t help but immediately assume Automaticc and Apple will butt heads at some point http://www.techmeme.com/240409/p20#a240409p20

drwhitt,
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@matthewcassinelli What if this is a Good Thing™️ in terms of moving forward with Messages support everywhere? I have no dog in the hunt, being all-in Apple ecosystem, but it occurs to me that no one in their right mind would intentionally draw their ire.

snarkysteff, to food
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Soup and sandwich.

Bacon-avocado-tomato on a ciabatta* bun, and some asparagus soup.

*Homemade, gluten-free.

#food

drwhitt,
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@snarkysteff
I’d love to hear how you baked the bun.*

*Team GF

drwhitt,
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@snarkysteff Thank you so much for! Will definitely check it out!

agiletortoise, to random
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CarPlay found where my 22yo was the year before his birth.

drwhitt,
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@agiletortoise I love that it's just north of Waxahatchee (sp.)
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/waxahatchee/485087438

film_girl, to random
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Trying to celebrate 404 day but I keep getting redirected.

drwhitt,
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@film_girl 308 Permanent Redirect was already celebrated last month.
[Updated]

_Davidsmith, to random
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I find it very frustrating that App Store Connect leans on Dun and Bradstreet for a bunch of their business verification requirements. Anytime I interact with that company in ANY way I will then receive a steady stream of solicitations and spam for weeks to come, both in emails and phone calls.

My most recent interaction with them to update things for the new DSA requirements has started this barrage back up again.

😞

drwhitt,
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@siracusa @_Davidsmith And they accomplished it in a mere 3 story points when the estimate at sprint planning was 5 points!

drwhitt, to random
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Hmm I wonder if @siracusa has thoughts on this?
#askatp https://hachyderm.io/@lizardbill/112145242911112859

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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let's imagine you're resolving this merge conflict (in screenshot).

You've forgotten which code comes from your current branch and which one comes from the "other" branch. How do you figure it out? Do you:

  1. remember what the "top" and "bottom" parts correspond to from past merge conflicts?
  2. remember what HEAD means?
  3. read the last line of the merge conflict?
  4. run something like git show main or git diff mybranch..main to see the diff?
  5. enable diff3
  6. something else?
drwhitt,
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@b0rk Without considering other aspects, it seems that one always wants to take the second (>>>) change as this represents local changes. Why, with the exception of maybe another (recent) commit on the remote on the exact same line(s) of code would one want to discard their changes?

flargh, to random
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I don't think I realized how badly Stop & Shop and Shaw's was ripping me off until I started shopping at Market Basket.

#newengland #groceries

drwhitt,
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@flargh In our neighborhood, Hannaford is the go-to both on price and well-stocked shelves, at least for the groceries we typically buy. YMMV.

grammargirl, to random
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Since a lot of people are talking about what they were doing four years ago, I opened my old calendar.

Four years ago today, I wrote down "Pat got coughed on."

drwhitt,
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@grammargirl Oof.

drwhitt,
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@grammargirl For those whose experience may have differed, this particular day is forevermore remembered by me as being the first working-remotely day mandated by my and other employers, which lasted until the end of my career. (I retired somewhat early, relatively speaking.)

drwhitt,
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@grammargirl Perhaps early relative differing, err, political forces on the East Coast (Boston area) as compared to other places in the U.S. For nearly all of us here, March 12, 2020 was the last day we were in the office before lockdown.

ChrisPirillo, to random
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we're not gonna take it

drwhitt,
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@ChrisPirillo In the Air Tonight (at the bridge?)

stroughtonsmith, to random
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We're back to this again.

/It is not the user's fault that SpringBoard craps up your launcher with stale app thumbnails going back to the dawn of history./

This is and has always been Apple's fault, and it’s beyond silly to complain that users are doing the wrong thing. They're not.

It's Apple's decision to clutter the launcher, to keep stale thumbnails for months and years, and to tie discarding thumbnails to force-quitting instead of a lighter abstraction. Bad UI

https://gizmodo.com/stop-closing-your-iphone-s-background-apps-1851264816

drwhitt,
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@stroughtonsmith …waiting for @siracusa to chime in in on this thread.

Michael Jackson Halloween GIF by Vevo

yatil, to random
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It’s amazing that we used to write templates for online shops as one-person gigs no 10 years ago, but now making an accessibility change takes a team and a project manager.

Sure, technology got more complicated, but this is ridiculous!

drwhitt,
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@yatil @thomasfuchs Lived experience confirms all of this. 👆🏻

drwhitt,
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@yatil @thomasfuchs Also, spoiler: It is not, I repeat NOT, the technology driving this - it’s poorly executed product management in 100% of the cases.

gedeonm, to random
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What was the first movie you ever saw in the theater?

Mine: Bambi

drwhitt,
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@gedeonm Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang at the Warwick (RI) Cinema.

It had an actual intermission (wherein the screen goes black with only the word INTERMISSION in large white letters) just at the point where the heroes are about to meet their doom, driving off of a cliff. (I won’t spoil it, though!)

gvwilson, to random
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My 16-year-old only wanted one thing for Christmas: a CD player. Her wish came true, so she picked through the 400+ CDs stored in our basement and selected about a hundred to listen to.
Having spent A SOLID WEEK listening to nothing but Elton John, she has now discovered a mix CD of Culture Club, the Thompson Twins, and Howard Jones and is playing it on repeat.
Please send help.

drwhitt,
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@gvwilson i’ll be right over

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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Midjourney v6’s new text feature is kinda fun — it does a much better job of integrating readable text into generated images

drwhitt,
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@stroughtonsmith “neat little superpower” is so, so succinct

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